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A federal program to encourage black homeownership in the 1970s ended in a flood of foreclosures. When tens of thousands of African-Americans held the keys to their first homes in [...]

On many days when the weather is accommodating, William Scarbrough stands outside the dry cleaner where he works, on the corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Halsey Street in Brooklyn, observing [...]

In February, at a Black History Month event in Brooklyn, Spike Lee spoke out against the recent transformation of the borough where he grew up and where many of his [...]

LOS ANGELES -- When racially charged riots blazed here two decades ago, South Central became a national symbol of rage in a poor black neighborhood. But the population of the [...]

The people of Edgewater Park have described their home as a Shangri-La, a tightly knit and idyllic community sitting on Long Island Sound in a hidden pocket of the Bronx. [...]

AS soon as the film producer Tom Rosenberg finished reading Philip Roth's novel 'The Human Stain,' about an African-American who passes for white, he wanted to turn it into a […]